Data Analysis of Roaring Kitty's "Influencer" Effect: 200 Related MEMEs in 3 Days, Over 90% Untraded
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Data Analysis of Roaring Kitty's "Influencer" Effect: 200 Related MEMEs in 3 Days, Over 90% Untraded
Roaring Kitty has once again become synonymous with the market's wealth code, as retail investors begin flocking to Roaring Kitty's Twitter content in search of the next wealth opportunity.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Frank, PANews
The man who led retail investors in the battle against Wall Street is back. Twitter user @Roaring Kitty (real name Keith Gill) was the originator of the 2021 retail investor movement that fought short-sellers and drove GameStop's stock price to astronomical heights. On May 13, Roaring Kitty reemerged on Twitter, posting numerous short videos and hinting at a new grassroots revolution.
Following news of his return, MEME coins associated with him surged. Among these, KITTY and GME were the most directly linked tokens and showed the strongest market performance. GME (on Solana) rose as much as 257x within a week, while KITTY (on Base) surged up to 157x.
Meme Coin Speculation Fueled by Short Videos
Once again, Roaring Kitty has become synonymous with market wealth creation. Retail investors have flocked to his Twitter feed, searching for the next big opportunity. He appears particularly enthusiastic about posting short videos—sometimes dozens per day. Some crypto users have launched related meme tokens based on elements from his video content, hoping to ride the wave of his renewed popularity.
Roaring Kitty’s videos are mostly brief montages of movie clips—under a minute long—with no clear theme, though they generally revolve around heroism and resistance. Examples include William Wallace shouting "Freedom!" before execution in *Braveheart*, or scenes of the Avengers battling Thanos. Additionally, he deliberately enlarges subtitles and highlights certain keywords in red or other eye-catching formats.
PANews analyzed 46 keywords appearing in Roaring Kitty’s recent videos and found that 202 meme coins had been created on Solana based on these terms. The phenomenon echoes Elon Musk’s influence when he promoted meme coins on Ethereum.
Over 90% of Related Meme Coins See No Trading Activity
However, meme coin enthusiasts may have overestimated Roaring Kitty’s influence. Out of the 202 meme coins created based on his video content, only one token—JUST UP—managed any notable price movement. It briefly spiked 10x after promotion by a Chinese meme KOL but quickly collapsed as interest faded. It now trades 94% below its peak, with a market cap of just $16,000.
Most of the other tokens saw zero trading activity after launch; only four out of the 202 recorded any meaningful volume.
Why are so many valueless tokens being created? A key reason lies in tools like Pump.fun, which allow near-instant token creation at extremely low cost. In the past, launching a meme coin on Ethereum required several hundred dollars—making it unprofitable if returns didn’t exceed costs. Now, creating a token on Solana costs around $2, an amount so negligible that users can mint tokens speculatively with little risk. As a result, nearly all Roaring Kitty–related meme coins are deployed on Solana.
Another factor is the sheer volume and randomness of keywords in Roaring Kitty’s frequent video posts. With multiple highlighted words per clip, this could generate hundreds of new tokens daily. These keywords rarely receive follow-up mentions, leaving no room for sustained marketing. This contrasts sharply with Elon Musk’s endorsements of meme coins like TROLL and GROK, where recurring references and underlying narratives—whether tied to events or products—create organic momentum. Each time Musk revisits such terms or new developments emerge, the associated tokens often react. Roaring Kitty’s content lacks this continuity; the resulting speculation is largely driven by retail hope rather than strategic intent.
Fragmented Attention Makes 'Golden Dogs' Harder to Find
Although Solana and Base have fueled a meme coin boom over the past six months, according to Cointelegraph, more than 1 million new cryptocurrencies have launched since April alone—640,000 on Solana and approximately 320,000 on Base. Meanwhile, Solana’s DEX trading volume has exceeded $1 billion for several consecutive days. Yet beneath this frenzy, meme coin traders face greater challenges: attention is increasingly fragmented, making it harder to identify the elusive “golden dog” projects poised for massive gains.
Take Roaring Kitty’s resurgence: the speculative focus isn't confined to a single chain. Tokens named GME and KITTY exist across Solana, Base, and Ethereum, with no interconnection between them. This disperses market attention across multiple versions of similar tokens, preventing capital concentration needed to drive a single project into the spotlight.
For investors, this raises the risk of falling into traps. According to PeckShieldAlert monitoring, a GME-named meme coin was dumped by its developers and instantly crashed to zero, wiping out 270,000 USD worth of ETH from liquidity pools. Even the most directly linked tokens to Roaring Kitty experienced sharp declines after brief rallies, averaging around 70% drawdowns.
Overall, profiting from trending meme coins remains far from easy. Beyond riding the hype, investors must consider contract security, whether there’s active backing behind a token, and precise timing for entry and exit. Otherwise, blindly chasing trends will likely end in losses.
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